now is the time to take action against this. the tifl v teaeachers and civil communities are planning rallies against it. this cannot become a national trend. joining me now is randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teempers and tameka mall ri. thank you both for joining me font. >> thank you, reverend. >> thanks. >> this is really nuts. >> brandy, i mean, teachers with loaded guns? what do you think? >> so, look. some of these very same states have strict teachers rights to actually have a voice in a classroom. have any latitude over what they do with students, have any latitude over their conditions at work. but, yet, they are rushing to arm teachers and rushing to arm schools. this is really dangerous, irresponsible. what we need -- and a huge diversion from what's going on. we actually need to make kids safer. we actually need to take guns away from kids. we've had 34,000 kids injured this last year because of guns. almost 6,000 kids died at the hands of guns. what we need to do is make schools into safe s